I watched "Liebe in Gedanken" earlier. It is a melancholy movie. Daniel Brühl and August Diehl play teenage friends in this film that is based on a true, Paul, played by Brühl is a poet from a working-class family. Günther, played by Diehl, is from an upper-class family. They go to Günther's family house out in the country where there is a party planned. Paul has a crush on Günther's sister, Hilde. Günther has a crush on a guy named Hans who has been flirting with him and having sex with his sister. Hans is a cook in Berlin. Paul and Günther make a pact that they are going to kill themselves when love fails them. On the train out from the city they play around with a gun that they have with them. Among a group of friends that Hilde brings out to the house is Elli who is rather shy but wants to experience sex. At the party there is a lot of drinking and probably sex. Hilde says that she does not want to settle down with one man, but it becomes clear that she is falling in love with Hans. Günther is jealous of their relationship, because he wants Hans for himself. During the night of the party Paul and Elli have sex. She seems to be a very insecure young woman. Günther decides that he wants to follow through with the suicide pact, but Paul has changed his mind. I enjoy the music of the film. It has one of my favorite songs "Irgendwo auf der Welt." In the movie there is a device about which I have not been able to find anything on the internet, a horoscope-mobile. It resembles a turntable with the sun and planets on the top. There are tarot cards. There are handles on wires coming from the device. The person holding the handles thinks of a question while holding the handles. The answer to the question is supposed to come from the card on which the device stops.
Paul and Günther also talk about dying when they are at what they think will be the happiest moment of their lives, because they say that their lives would be saddened by that moment. This film was released X-Filme Creative Pool who has released a lot of interesting films. Watching films in German has helped me to learn that language. I have a couple of DVD's of Rammstein I want to watch soon. One is "Live aus Berlin" (the edited U.S. version) and Lichtspielhaus, a collection of music videos. I have not made it all the way through the former without masturbating at some point. I also have some Laibach DVD's I plav on watching.
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